Dinner with EMBA classmate
Without Jasper's enthusiam, the window for Gang of 4's dinner may last longer than we expected; The last minute change of restaurant was my idea. since they want me to choose the restaurant, although I am tired of doing this, but, for the sake of everyones' stomach, I did it.
Update is the normal thing we did, Jasper recover the company's financial jeorderdy and turn to blue again, an amazing turn around; Sidney is busy in preparing his own clinic, he resigned from on Medical Center and decided to run his own hospital since June, now the clinic will open by end of the month, I proposed to do the " Lion and Dragon Dance " on the day of opening as a speical ceremory custom made for him, we talked about the project and idea, we will so happy and this is what we going to do. Peter have his philosophy of surviring and he always keep in positive attitude. it's a wonderful gathering again.
the evening session meeting with Chairman of Taiwan S. - we bring the proposal asking for additional 26 millions in acquriring 3000 more subscribers, according to S. this investment is not aim for getting more subs, but to ignite the passion and fire in the heart of every manager; this put me in a dilema, as I may be the target person S. observed , but this is another trap to keep me here without moving forward. actually, the proposal K. brought to present will never achieve such a goal, loose, no focus, slow and no action...... I am afraid even more resouce injected, the outcome will not as good as we promised. I don't really get the itimacy with bot S. and K.
In the morning, with S.'s request, I arranged them to visit First Internation Corporation ( Da Chung Group ), Chairman Chien is a senior YPOer, so he is very kind of hosting us, well, this is kind of wasting time because a courtesy visit to such an important person without bringing any result is a very high cost activity, noting pay off, it turn to be a non value added activity as well.
Wife asked me why I feeling low last night, I told her I get the feeling that to leave this company may take much effort than I can image, I should think thoughoutfully in order to make my move a smooth one.
I didn't know the situation developed so bad
M. asked my about my impression to Christian during our Sharks' Fin dinner -- I simply thow out a few stereo type to him, the laundary list keep growing until I mentioned the final one : I had a feeiling that religion helping people find a shelter which also provide them a room to escape, escape from reality ", he thought my observation was right. he enjoyed stayed in Taipei for the past 11 days, until last night, I aware how bad his finanical situation is and how hard he is seeking the answer God may delivered, but he still can't find the answer until last night.I spend decent time with him on his trip, as he mentioned this might be his last visit to Taiwan - under the condition that there's no more need or work, I am sort of gettting the feeling that the journey of new serching is important to him, so I make myself accessable to his stay.for the past few days, I found he changed a little bit, from the first night we met to update each other, I told him my decision to resign and he shared with me how life is difficult for him in Singapore other than his spiritural development, but he seems accpet the arrangment by God, until 2 days ago, when explore a few potential of music business, he became aggrestive and tried to tail after our chat, this is unususal to me, he seldom become aggrestive, as I am no longer with music industry, to reconnected with the people, finding talent and raise fund, it take time to incubate a project, and he needed to have job, I really don't know what to do about it.Surrounded by Charistian in Singpore, he told me whenever they encounter with problem, the last and probable the most welcomed means to slove it is " Let's prey ", as everyone doing the same, there's no point to really digest the question and finding other alternative. maybe God will provide a road , and maybe no alternative is the only alternative, but he told me in Taiwan, people surrounded were not Christian, he can really see how people deal with their problems. this comment is quite new to me and I never thought about it before.Lunch with C. another artist turn business man who locate to Taiwan for 20 years, I mentioned something about IYT, he might be a good co-worker to this project, if my wife agree. I change the restaurant to Far eastern, it's been years since I visit this Suntory, but the lunch is quiet good. I take advantage of this restaurat because I sign up for the seminar at the Far Esteran Shengerila by 1:30 pm, the seminar is hosted by MIC - A subsiderary of III, with a sexy topic " 3G " but very poor presentation, the second presentor - a lady from MIC was the worst, she don't know how to delvier the message and the material she prepare means nothing, the chart and flow she draw at the slide don't have a logic, I don't know why a Mckinsey equivelent research firm ( according to the goal they set ) produce such a poor quality. as I was invited by my EMBA classmate, so, I stayed there for the whole afternoon, learning something, maybe, but this is not a good way to waste time.As Martin caugh a cold, so I bring him to the Shark Fins' restaurant, after the good soup, I brough him to an interesting place - OM HUM, a vegetarian cafe located in She-Da area, a very quite and nice place to talk. this is my first time there already I tried it a few times before.S. called late yesterday after to reitatreat he is working on my contract, nevermind, I am not sure if NCC / C... will be factors as well.Expection Eric Johnson's concert on Sunday.
Another half day in Heaven and Hell
After the managers' meeting, I don't feel well, yes, this is contribute from my sycological reaction; I don't feel like stay at the office, even had the phone call with S. - Chairman of Taiwan, I am not feeling comfortable, this morning, right after the manages' meeting, I arrange a rescure session for our EC Mall business - a request form T. a manger from Japay, in order to solve his pain in the ass, however, when the meeting begins, I found those 2 expatirate had an agreement before, the EC Mall critical situation don't seems to be an urgent matter; It's so wiered; if the so call " Schedule " and " Action plan " is simply for stablize our team internally, not in the process of solving the problem, what bother me? and why should be be so worried? I don't know why they won't tell the turth even in such an important meeting, in another statement, if this obscale lays there for months, why it took so long for them to look at those issues? and why not find a better soluiton earlier? I don't know.
Lunch with Shi-Feng, a young man who establish a music commuity then turn into a distribution lable in the indie music scene, a decent and knowledgeable young guy who devoted himself to this tough and challenge situration. as we met at the Golden Meloday Awards Judge Panel and I am also a fan of his mother, Mrs. Tao who we always repsect as " The mother of Taiwan Campus Folk ", his level is now in critical financial difficulity and seeking outside helper or investor, As I am a Mud Budda ( a metaphore to exploit that a God hardly can protect himself when crossing the river ) but still wish to grant some hope to him, so.. I listen carefully and trying to establish the engagement, I think I did, I promise him a " No Gurantee " alternative and will get back to him in a few days.
then I decided to take my half day leave, finding my wife at Sogo, buy her a Latte at Starbuck and we decided to go south, instead o do our seashore routine, I asked her to go somewhere near Da-Si and we manger to get to one little village call Fu-Shin, it used to be a place the last President Chiang in foud of, we drove to the Chioa-Pain Mountain, take a rest at the Youth Activitiy Center and then take the same route back to Shemen Dam, discover the fish restaurant and wish to enjoy the whole-fish feast, however, we were disappointed, the taste of cuisine wasn't good, we had to pack almost all the food home.
Be a coach patato again, the interview of artist Tsao-Chi-Tai was very inspiring, he just published a book call " a 160 millions lesson ' this is a semi-biogrophy of this talent who run into a giganic deficit and seeking his way back, Tsao is a very brilliant guy and a good example to young people.
Ruling party and Oppisite party had a very serious battle at legistor Yuan this moring for the NCC Act, the result it send 2 legislator to hopsital and paramise the operation, as the conflict is very serious, me and my wife think now the Pan-Blue ( opposite parties ) will never agree on any candidate to be the head of NCC, It may pave a better road for me.... a wild guesting.
Eating Holiday
For the past few days, the only contribution I did for my body is gaining weight, I don't know why, but when having meal with Martin, I can't stop but finish every rice in front of me, this put me to a 70 KG limit, as I told myself stop eating too much, claim back a better body, I should not break the owl again and again. but what else can we do, when suggest to go somewhere, then we found out he's been there with me before, it seems like Taipie is a very boring city now.Yesterday, doing nothing, bought an ipod nano last week, the design is so gourouge, so I tried to connected it with the iTune service, I suppose to install songs to my iTune librery, however, the lazy bone keep me at the coath, do nothing, waiting for the meal rining bell.
What shocked me yesterday was when watching the news, the NCC law cause the dispute between Ruling Party and those opposite parties; then I recalled what Chairman said to me, there's a chace that he will be assigned to the Head of NCC in order to cease the fire between parities, in such a case, do I need or have the chance to join the Telecom Giant, I didn't think much last week until yesterday, the devleopment of NCC probabely will limited to a few candidate to head this critical postition, what if Chairman been appointed, then I should erase one of the career opportunity from the list, this sudden impact turn me and my wife's mood down , she even thought of noting buying the mutton pot -- a very basic and instict reaction to an unpleasant feeling, well, I am not sure, but when you think hard and go into the only direction, it's not easy to pull yourself out of the tramp, let's wait and see.
But for the last month, my schedule is not in order, when checking my PDA, I knew it immediately, the " To Do " list is not complete on time, items of to do's reduced and not middle plan in the calendar, this is not a productive way to live you life, as I should not wasting my life, I should live everyday meaningful.
Again, I should call back my intepretation for " Determination " : Drawing a hard line in the bottom of my heart.
Sleep at home for long hours, but it seems I am not recoverd from the stay up nights. C. flew out to Canada, I should picking up the pieces and finish the 10 pages of strategy paper.
Long Weekend
The double tenth day national holiday wasn't a productive one, as I must attend the consultaning committe for PTS the entire Sat. so, the extended holidays means little to the family; the other assignment which binding me it the visit of good friend - Martin from Singaport.We knew each other for 17 years and the friendship developed since, at the very beginning, when I worked at one local recond company in charge of International repertoire planning, the domestic dept sign him from Singapore as a solo artist, the problem is, he sang half of the albume in Mandairn, but can't conduct any promtion in Mandarian, when doing promotion in Taiwan, I was assigned to be his promotion staff , handling diary promotion activity for him, the 3 weeks promotion set up the foundation for our long term friendship, then I go my own way and he become a very famous producer , song writer and arranger instead of being an artist; his best years was act as the producer for A-May and to handle her concerts around Asia, that's the hayday for him and for the record years. then change of faminly status, he become father and raised 2 kids when are exactly the same age as ours -- daughter at 12 now and son as 8 years old. his second child - the boy encounter with a learning difficulity and need to sent to special school for therapy, but as far as I know, the result wan't pleasnt, the change of his life lead him close to religion, he become a sincere Christian and devoted much of his time in church related issue. the not aggrestively invloved in music industry double the difficulity in living his standard before. especially when the music industry suffer so much these years. we are good friend always, whenever he got chance to come, I will accompany him as much time as possible, he will do the same for me when I visit Singaport, but I haven't visit him for more than 5 years.This time, he come for finishing a job which should be completed 2 years ago, as a producer for one local artist, the work didn't meet the requirement of the level owner, so he return again, we met up again. I brough him to dinner / meal for the last 3 days , we eat and talk and I share my latest career development with him and I can feel that he thought I am luckyier than him, I don't know if I am, but the point he mentioned is a fact, which is : I can make my own decision, and his job is wait for opportunity to come. I talked with my wife and think we can grant our support in next level of the devlopment, no guarentee, but try to build the lingkage in between is quite importannt.Lunch with Chairman HC on Friday, I express my commitment and win him a big smile and a tighten hand shaking, my brain start working immediately, this is my problem to reacat on any decision I made and to think with full gear up. attending FAT charity event discussion, the dept. manger is a last-minute man, he listen, no reponse, but at the end, he pull out everything on his mind and do his best to reserse the situation, this is fine with me as I am no in the poistion to " get the consultation contract ", I think we had an agreement.seeying M. at the Taiwan Advance Hospital, she conduct a lower belly tumor cut-off surgery the on last Thuraday, her mother told me how scared she was, shaking and the heatbet fast to a degree that the nurse need to call her mother in. M. told me she rather working at the office instead of experienceing such a painfull surgery, I told her this is the experience and lesson which told me " Don't work only " we need to follow a regular life , never work until the day our body echo to us, they don't want to stay with us anymore.On Friday night, when returning home, go to the movie " Flight Plan " with my wife, in order to release some presure in the day time, I choose this thrill movie, the story is a little bit like " Panic Room " the cult movie acting by Judie Foster also.The conclusion for consulting at PBS is " Public Broadcasing Group " should release a statement to public and to President Chen under what scenario, the CTS merge to PBG can be exercise in good manner, if the presumption or prerequisite is not there, there' no point for PTS to take the reponsibitity and to be challenged as well. Thanks God that I give up the idea of join the PTS system, otherwise, the political game will lead me to a very bad situation.Eating at Circle Night Market last night, we parked our car at a no-parking zone, even thought we did it a couple of times before, there's no toll - away, but when we parted last ngiht, I told my wife and Sound, I got the instict that the car will be toll away this time. well, Bingo, we finished our dinner by 7:30 and the car is gone, what left is the the white choral pan marked where our car is, there a taxi stand by the scene, he is kind enough drove us to the toll-away zone, the panetily is 1900 NT, I seldom right about my intuition, but how come it happened last night, I wan's mad at all, my wife got her licence for 5 years, this is the first time our car been toll away.It's Sunday morning now, I got 4 Photom of Opera tickted for Yang, as present from me and my wife, we wish her well and can enjoy the show next year.
